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Joan E Greve in Washington

Ginni Thomas, wife of Clarence Thomas, attended rally preceding Capitol attack

Virginia ‘Ginni’ Thomas, wife of supreme court justice Clarence Thomas, watches Amy Coney Barrett take the constitutional oath on the South Lawn of the White House on 26 October 2020.
Virginia ‘Ginni’ Thomas, wife of supreme court justice Clarence Thomas, watches Amy Coney Barrett take the constitutional oath on the South Lawn of the White House, on 26 October 2020. Photograph: Patrick Semansky/AP

Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, wife of the supreme court justice Clarence Thomas, has admitted attending a rally which preceded the January 6 attack on the US Capitol but denied helping to plan it.

In an interview with the Washington Free Beacon, Thomas, a conservative activist who runs a political lobbying firm, said she briefly attended the rally near the White House on 6 January 2021 but left before Donald Trump addressed the crowd.

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